Ethical foundations of the left

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Fri Jul 27 10:10:01 PDT 2001


On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Justin Schwartz wrote:


> If I say, ouch, that hurts, normally you will not contradict it. But if (as
> often happens with my daughter), she complains about various pains I don't
> think she has because I think she wants attention or is upset, I might
> contradict it, Likewise, I often think I remember something, but it turns
> out that it's something I heard or read rather than experienced. You may
> say, but I can be certain about what I think I remember, but this isn't
> true, since "certainty" is a temporal experience, and I may be wrong about
> having had that memory even a moment ago. As you get older, these "senior
> moments" happen more often. Really, do reread the relevant parts of
> Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. --jks
>

I'm kinda surprised nobody's brought up Wittgenstein here. His later stuff is (for me) a slam-dunk refutation of ken's common-sense "I have privileged access to my own experiences" spiel.

Miles



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